transversal

Etymology

From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

adj

1. Running or lying across; transverse.
   a transversal line
2. Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
   This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […]" 2017, Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson, Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 189
   First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […] 2018, Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements, And Feminism, Routledge

noun

1. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
   1. (geometry) A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines.
      Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil. 2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357
2. (mathematics) A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.